When Truth Matters, Brain Scanning Lie Detector Now Commercially Available

TYNGSBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After eight years of extensive research, numerous published studies and presentations to the scientific community, Cephos announces the availability of functional MRI-based lie detection/truth verification services to the general public.

“In today’s litigious society, an accusation alone can cause serious damage to a person’s reputation, relationships and financial position,” says Dr. Steven Laken, Founder and President of Cephos. “Our services have the ability to clear someone’s name at the onset—be it verifying an alibi or deducing the truth behind a harassment or adultery claim—before suspicion and accusations take on a life of their own.”

The use of functional MRI technology (fMRI) for lie detection has been widely acknowledged both in the field of science and by the general media. To date, 19 published peer reviewed articles on the topic have appeared in numerous scientific journals and over 10,000 articles using fMRI have appeared in other journals.

Unlike the more widely used polygraph test (which recent studies show to be inaccurate and is not admissible in courts of law), fMRI lie detection doesn’t measure stress-based responses, nor are the results susceptible to human subjectivity. Simply stated, the brain works harder to tell a lie than to tell the truth. FMRI scanning with Cephos’ proprietary software documents the increased stimulation in the brain regions when a lie is being told, so while a person can control their stress responses while lying in a polygraph test, it is unlikely a person can trigger their brain to “work” when lying.

To date, Cephos has conducted the most thorough research using fMRI deception detection technology with over 360 blind tests on various groups of diverse subjects resulting in extremely high accuracy. In addition to published articles and abstracts on their findings in leading journals, scientific and legal scholars have invited Cephos to present to the Committee on Science, Technology and Law at the National Academies of Science, to state judges at the National Judicial College and to Federal judges at the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse. A number of additional presentations by Dr. Laken are scheduled in 2008.

For more information on Cephos Corp., fMRI lie detection or how to have a scan performed, contact Cephos Corp. at (978) 703-4725. Additional information, including links to scientific studies and media stories featuring Cephos (including articles in The New York Times, the New Yorker, Wired Magazine, Business Week, Time, and the Associated Press) are available at www.cephoscorp.com.